LIST OF MEMORABLE DESIGNERS |
NAME AND DETAILS |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm "F. W." Murnau was a German film director. Murnau was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. |
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Abbas Kiarostami Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. |
128
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Abram Games Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Games
Abram Games OBE, RDI was a British graphic designer. The style of his work – refined but vigorous compared to the work of contemporaries – has earned him a place in the pantheon of the best of 20th-century graphic designers. |
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Adolf Dassler Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Dassler
Adolf "Adi" Dassler was the founder of the German sportswear company Adidas, and the younger brother of Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma. |
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adolf Loos Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Loos
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and influential European theorist of Modern architecture. |
62
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Adrian Adolph Greenberg Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_(costume_designer)
Adrian Adolph Greenberg, widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. |
424
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Akira Kurosawa Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. |
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Alan Fletcher Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Fletcher_(graphic_designer)
Alan Gerard Fletcher was a British graphic designer. In his obituary, he was described by The Daily Telegraph as "the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation, and probably one of the most prolific". |
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Albe Steiner Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albe_Steiner
He is a designer and Italian partisan. |
350
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Albert Bierstadt Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt was a German-born American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. |
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Albrecht Altdorfer Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg. |
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Alexander Archipenko Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Archipenko
Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko was a Ukrainian-born American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist. |
187
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Alexander McQueen Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McQueen
Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. |
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Alexander Rodchenko Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rodchenko
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. |
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Alexey Brodovitch Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Brodovitch
Alexey Vyacheslavovich Brodovitch was a Russian-born photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958. |
457
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Alfred Cartier Memorable Designers
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Cartier
Alfred Cartier ( 1841 - 1925 ) is a jeweler watch , son of Louis-François Cartier , founder of the luxury business Cartier . |
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Alfred Hitchcock Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was an English film director and producer, at times referred to as "The Master of Suspense". He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. |
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Alfred Stieglitz Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. |
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Alvar Aalto Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer, as well as a sculptor and painter. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. |
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André Beauneveu Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Beauneveu
André Beauneveu was an Early Netherlandish sculptor and painter, born in the County of Hainaut, who is best known for his work in the service of the French King Charles V, and of the Valois Duke, Jean de Berry. |
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André Courrèges Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Courreges
André Courrèges was a French fashion designer. He was particularly known for his streamlined 1960s designs influenced by modernism and futurism, exploiting modern technology and new fabrics. |
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André Kertész Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Kert%C3%A9sz
André Kertész, born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. |
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Andrea del Sarto Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_del_Sarto
Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. |
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Andrea Palladio Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Palladio
Andrea Palladio was an Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered to be the most influential individual in the history of architecture. |
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Andrei Tarkovsky Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director. Tarkovsky's films include Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker. |
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Anne Klein Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Klein
Anne Klein was an American fashion designer who founded her own women's sportswear and apparel label. |
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Ansel Adams Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, books, and the internet. |
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Antoine Bourdelle Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Bourdelle
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Antonello da Messina Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonello_da_Messina
Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and also Anglicized as Anthony of Messina, was an Italian painter from Messina, Sicily, active during the Italian Renaissance. |
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Antoni Gaudí Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaudi
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Spanish Catalan architect from Reus and the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect an individualized and distinctive style. |
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Arne Jacobsen Memorable Designers
http://www.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Jacobsen
Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs. |
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Arnold Böcklin Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_B%C3%B6cklin
Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter. |
218
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Arthur Boyd Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Boyd
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE was a leading Australian painter of the late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. |
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August Sander Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Sander
August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century. |
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Augusta Bernard Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_Bernard
Augusta Bernard (Provence, 1886-1946) was a French fashion designer. |
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Auguste Lumière Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re
Lumière brothers, French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinématographe (“cinema” is derived from this name). |
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Balthus Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. |
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Barney Bubbles Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Bubbles
Barney Bubbles was an English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction. |
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Bernardo Bellotto Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Bellotto
Bernardo Bellotto, also called Canaletto, was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities. |
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Bernd and Hilla Becher Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_and_Hilla_Becher
Bernhard "Bernd" Becher, and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser, were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. |
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Bernice Alexandra Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr (1907–1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" (née Kaiser) Eames (1912–1988) /ˈiːmz/ were husband and wife American designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture. Among their most well-known designs is the Eames Lounge Chair. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film. |
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Berthold Lubetkin Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Lubetkin
Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin was a Georgian-born émigré architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s. His work includes the Highpoint housing complex, London Zoo penguin pool, Finsbury Health Centre and Spa Green Estate. |
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Bill Blass Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Blass
William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award. |
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Bill Bowerman Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bowerman
William Jay "Bill" Bowerman was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers. |
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Bill Brandt Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brandt
Bill Brandt was a British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazine as Lilliput and Picture Post, later his distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes. |
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Bill Cunningham Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cunningham_(American_photographer)
William John "Bill" Cunningham Jr. was an American fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candid and street photography. |
470
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Bill Gibb Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gibb
William Elphinstone "Bill" Gibb was a Scottish fashion designer who became renowned in the 1960s and 70s for his unusual and flattering designs. |
521
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Billy Wilder Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wilder
Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than fifty years and sixty films. |
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Bonnie Cashin Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Cashin
Bonnie Cashin was an American designer and is considered one of the pioneering designers of American sportswear. She created practical, uncomplicated clothing that catered to the independent woman of the post-war era. |
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Brassaï Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassa%C3%AF
Brassaï was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the World Wars. |
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Carl Franz Bally Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Franz_Bally
Carl Franz Bally was a Swiss businessman who founded the Bally Shoe company in 1851. Carl Franz Bally was the 11th of 14 children of Peter Bally and Anna Maria Herzog. |
436
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Carl Theodor Dreyer Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Theodor_Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer, commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema. |
111
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Cecil Beaton Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. |
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Charles Creed Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Creed
Charles Creed was a British fashion designer. Born into the longstanding tailoring house of Henry Creed & Company in Paris, he launched his eponymous label in London in 1946. |
469
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Charles Frederick Worth Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Frederick_Worth
Charles Frederick Worth was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is considered by many fashion historians to be the father of haute couture. |
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Charles James Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_James_(designer)
Charles Wilson Brega James (18 July 1906 – 23 September 1978) was a British-born fashion designer known as "America's First Couturier". He is widely considered to have been a master of cutting and is known for his highly structured aesthetic. |
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Charles Jourdan Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jourdan
Charles Jourdan was a French fashion designer known best for his designs of women's shoes starting in 1919. |
634
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Charles Ormond Eames Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr (1907–1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" (née Kaiser) Eames (1912–1988) /ˈiːmz/ were husband and wife American designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture. Among their most well-known designs is the Eames Lounge Chair. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic . |
84
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. |
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Charles Sumner Greene Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greene_and_Greene
Greene and Greene was an architectural firm established by brothers Charles Sumner Greene (1868–1957) and Henry Mather Greene (1870–1954), influential early 20th Century American architects. Active primarily in California, their houses and larger-scale ultimate bungalows are prime exemplars of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. |
54
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Charles Voysey Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Voysey_(architect)
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52
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Charlie Chaplin Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film. |
89
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Christian Bérard Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_B%C3%A9rard
Christian Bérard, also known as Bébé, was a French artist, fashion illustrator and designer.
Bérard and his lover Boris Kochno, who worked for the Ballets Russes. |
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Christian Dior Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior
Christian Dior ( 21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957) was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior, which is now owned by Groupe Arnault. |
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Christoph Drecoll Memorable Designers
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Drecoll
Johann Wilhelm Rudolf Christoph von Drecoll was a German couturier . |
500
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Christopher Wren Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wren
Sir Christopher Wren PRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710. |
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Claire McCardell Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_McCardell
Claire McCardell was an American fashion designer in the arena of ready-to-wear clothing in the 20th century. She is credited with the creation of American sportswear. |
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Coco Chanel Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and namesake of the Chanel brand. |
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Constantin Brâncuși Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncu%C8%99i
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. |
532
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Corinne Day Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinne_Day
Corinne Day was a British fashion photographer, documentary photographer, and fashion model. |
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Cristóbal Balenciaga Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristobal_Balenciaga
Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre was a Spanish Basque fashion designer and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house. |
141
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Dante Bighi Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Bighi
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347
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David Bomberg Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bomberg
Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks, and which included Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, C.R.W. Nevinson and Dora Carrington. Bomberg painted a series of complex geometric compositions combining the influences of cubism and futurism in the years immediately preceding World War I; typically using a limited number of striking colours, turning humans into simple, angular shapes, and sometimes overlaying the whole painting a strong grid-work colouring scheme |
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David Wark Griffith Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith
David Wark Griffith, known as D. W. Griffith, was an American film director, writer, and producer who pioneered modern filmmaking techniques. He is known for The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. |
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Diane Arbus Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus
Diane Arbus was an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalized people—dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers—and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal. |
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Dieric Bouts Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieric_Bouts
Dieric Bouts was an Early Netherlandish painter. Very little is known about Bouts' early life, but he was greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and by Rogier van der Weyden, under whom he may have studied. |
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Domenico di Pace Beccafumi Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_di_Pace_Beccafumi
Domenico Beccafumi, also called Domenico di Pace (born c. 1486, Montaperti, Siena, Republic of Siena—died May 1551, Siena) Italian painter and sculptor, a leader in the post-Renaissance style known as Mannerism. A Philosopher, chiaroscuro woodcut by Domenico Beccafumi, between 1500–52. |
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Dorothea Lange Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. |
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Eadweard Muybridge Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. |
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Edith Head Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Head
Edith Head was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, starting with The Heiress and ending with The Sting. |
527
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Edward Molyneux Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Molyneux
Edward Henry Molyneux was a leading British fashion designer whose salon in Paris was in operation from 1919 until 1950. |
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Edward Steichen Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Steichen
Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. |
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Edward Weston Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Weston
Edward Henry Weston was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography. |
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Edwin H. Land Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land
Edwin Herbert Land was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision. His Polaroid instant camera, which went on sale in late 1948, made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less. |
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Eero Saarinen Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_Saarinen
Eero Saarinen was a 20th-century Finnish American architect and industrial designer noted for his neofuturistic style. |
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Elia Kazan Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Kazan
Elia Kazan was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". He was born in Istanbul, to Cappadocian Greek parents. |
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Elio Fiorucci Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_Fiorucci
Elio Fiorucci (10 June 1935 – 19 July 2015) was an Italian fashion designer and the founder of the Fiorucci fashion label. |
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Elsa Schiaparelli Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. |
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Emil Ruder Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Ruder
Emil Ruder was a Swiss typographer and graphic designer, who with Armin Hofmann joined the faculty of the Schule für Gestaltung Basel. |
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Emilio Pucci Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Pucci
Don Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento (20 November 1914 – 29 November 1992) was a Florentine Italian fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colours. |
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Ernst Haas Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haas
Ernst Haas was a photojournalist and a pioneering color photographer. During his 40-year career, the Austrian-born artist bridged the gap between photojournalism and the use of photography as a medium for expression and creativity. |
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Ernst Lubitsch Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch (/ˈluːbɪtʃ/; January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".
In 1946, he received an Honorary Academy Award for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture. He was also nominated three times for Best Director. |
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Erwin Blumenfeld Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Blumenfeld
Erwin Blumenfeld was a photographer and artist born in Germany. He was best known for his fashion photography published in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in the 1940s and 1950s. |
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Estée Lauder Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A9e_Lauder_(businesswoman)
Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman. She was the co-founder, along with her husband, Joseph Lauter, of Estée Lauder Companies, her eponymous cosmetics company. |
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Eugène Boudin Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Boudin
Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. |
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Eve Arnold Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arnold
Eve Arnold, OBE, Hon. FRPS was an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957. |
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Federico Fellini Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Fellini
Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness, he is recognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. |
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Fernanda Gattinoni Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernanda_Gattinoni
Fernanda Gattinoni was an Italian Stylist. |
519
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Filippo Brunelleschi Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was an Italian designer and a key figure in architecture, recognised to be the first modern engineer, planner and sole construction supervisor. He was one of the founding fathers of the Renaissance. |
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Ford Madox Brown Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Madox_Brown
Ford Madox Brown was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painting was Work. |
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Fra Angelico Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Angelico
Fra Angelico was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". He was known to contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole and Fra Giovanni Angelico. |
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Fra Bartolomeo Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Bartolomeo
Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo OP, also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di S. Marco, and his actual name Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects. |
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Francis Bacon Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. |
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Francis Frith Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Frith
Francis Frith was an English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom. [1] Frith was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, attending Quaker schools at Ackworth and Quaker Camp Hill in Birmingham |
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Franco Grignani Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Grignani
Franco Grignani (Pieve Porto Morone, 1908 – Milano, 1999) è stato un designer, pittore e architetto italiano. |
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Franco Moschino Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Moschino
Franco Moschino was an Italian fashion designer best known as the founder of the Italian fashion house Moschino. |
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François Boucher Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Boucher
François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. |
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Frank Capra Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Capra
Frank Russell Capra was an Italian-American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. |
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Frank Lloyd Wright Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. |
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Frédéric Bazille Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bazille
Jean Frédéric Bazille was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air. |
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Fritz Lang Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-German filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. |
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Gaby Aghion Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaby_Aghion
Gabrielle Aghion was a French fashion designer and the founder of the French fashion house Chloé. She is said to have coined the phrase "prêt-à-porter". |
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Garry Winogrand Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Winogrand
Garry Winogrand was a street photographer from the Bronx, New York, known for his portrayal of American life, and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. |
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Gentile Bellini Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile_Bellini
Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 – 23 February 1507) was an Italian painter of the school of Venice. He came from Venice's leading family of painters, and at least in the early part of his career was more highly regarded than his younger brother Giovanni Bellini, the reverse of the case today. |
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Geoffrey Beene Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Beene
Geoffrey Beene was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple, comfortable and dressy women's wear. |
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George Barbier Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barbier
George Barbier was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century. Born in Nantes, France on 16 October 1882, Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 . |
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George Bellows Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bellows
George Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation". |
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George Caleb Bingham Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Caleb_Bingham
George Caleb Bingham was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity, Bingham's work was rediscovered in the 1930s. |
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George Eastman Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eastman
George Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. |
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George Hoyningen-Huene Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hoyningen-Huene
Baron George Hoyningen-Huene was a seminal fashion photographer of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Russia to Baltic German and American parents and spent his working life in France, England and the United States. |
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Georges Braque Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Braque
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. |
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Georges Doeuillet Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Doeuillet
Georges Camille Doeuillet was born 16 July 1865 in Oise, Northern France. Doeuillet became one of France's best known Couturiers along with his peers Louise Chéruit, Jeanne Paquin, Paul Poiret, Redfern & Sons and the House of Charles Worth. In 1911 he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour in recognition of his contribution to fashion.Georges Doeuillet was President of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture until 1915.He was known for his refined and elegant design style. |
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Georges-Eugène Haussmann Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Eugene_Haussmann
Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ øʒɛn (ba.ʁɔ̃) os.man], 27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), was the prefect of the Seine Department in France, who was chosen by the Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a massive program of new boulevards, parks and public works in Paris, commonly called Haussmann's renovation of Paris. |
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Gerrit Rietveld Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Rietveld
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣɛrɪt ˈtoːmɑs ˈritfɛlt]; 24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
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Giacomo Balla Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Balla
Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his painting he depicted light, movement and speed. |
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini Memorable Designers
Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. |
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Giancarlo Iliprandi Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo_Iliprandi
Born in Milan, in 1949 Iliprandi graduated in painting and in 1953 in scenography from the Brera Academy. He was a self-taught graphic designer, inspired by Antonio Boggeri, Max Huber, Albe Steiner and Bruno Munari. In the early 1950s he was able to get commissions from important companies including RAI, Honeywell, Roche, La Rinascente, FIAT, Standa and Electa. |
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Gianfranco Ferré Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianfranco_Ferr%C3%A9
Gianfranco Ferré was a fashion designer also known as "the architect of fashion" for his background and his original attitude toward creating fashion design. |
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Gianni Versace Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Versace
Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, make-up and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films. |
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Gio Ponti Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gio_Ponti
Giovanni "Gio" Ponti (18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979) was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, and publisher. |
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Giovanni Bellini Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Bellini
Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. |
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Giulio Confalonieri Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Confalonieri
Giulio Confalonieri (Milan, 1926 - Milan, 2008) was an Italian designer and He was, after World War II, one of the leading exponents of the Swiss School in Italia.Con a style with a high-impact graphic sign, usually in black and white, and characterized in terms of composition by gimmicks designed to create a dynamic and a voltage contrast between positive and negative elements elements |
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. |
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Guccio Gucci Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccio_Gucci
Guccio Gucci (26 March 1881 – 2 January 1953) was an Italian businessman and fashion designer, the founder of The Fashion House of Gucci. |
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Guy Laroche Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Laroche
Guy Laroche was a French fashion designer and founder of the eponymous company. Laroche began his career in millinery and, from 1949, Laroche worked for Jean Dessès, eventually becoming his assistant. |
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Halston Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halston
Roy Halston Frowick, known simply as Halston, was an American fashion designer who rose to international fame in the 1970s. |
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Hans Baldung Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Baldung
Hans Baldung Grien or Grün was a German artist in painting and printmaking who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer. Throughout his lifetime, Baldung developed a distinctive style, full of color, expression and imagination. |
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Hans Bellmer Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bellmer
Hans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. |
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Hardy Amies Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Amies
Sir Edwin Hardy Amies, KCVO, known as Hardy Amies, was an English fashion designer, founder of the Hardy Amies label and best known for his official title as dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II. |
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Hattie Carnegie Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Carnegie
Hattie Carnegie was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1960s. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary as Henrietta Kanengeiser. |
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Helen Levitt Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Levitt
Helen Levitt was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time." |
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Helmut Newton Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Newton
Helmut Newton was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications." |
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Hendrick Avercamp Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks, and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. |
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and conceived of photography as capturing a decisive moment. |
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Henri Kay Henrion Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Kay_Henrion
Frederick Henri Kay Henrion, was a German graphic designer. A celebrated poster and exhibition designer, Henrion was also the founding father of modern European corporate identity. |
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Henry Fox Talbot Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot was a British scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. |
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Henry Mather Greene Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greene_and_Greene
Greene and Greene was an architectural firm established by brothers Charles Sumner Greene (1868–1957) and Henry Mather Greene (1870–1954), influential early 20th Century American architects. Active primarily in California, their houses and larger-scale ultimate bungalows are prime exemplars of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. |
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Henry van de Velde Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_van_de_Velde
Henry Clemens van de Velde was a Belgian painter, architect and interior designer. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar he could be considered as one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium. |
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Herb Lubalin Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Lubalin
Herbert F. Lubalin was an American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg's magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual beauty of these publications. |
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Hieronymus Bosch Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painter. His work is known for its fantastic imagery, detailed landscapes, and illustrations of religious concepts and narratives. |
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Horst P. Horst Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_P._Horst
Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann who chose to be known as Horst P. Horst was a German-American fashion photographer. |
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Howard Hawks Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name. |
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Ikko Tanaka Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikko_Tanaka
Ikko Tanaka was a graphic designer. |
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Ilio Negri Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilio_Negri
Ilio Negri (Milan, 1926 - Milan, 1974) was an Italian designer and graphic,
He was one of the main exponents of the Swiss School in Italy. |
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Ingmar Bergman Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, and theatre. |
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Inigo Jones Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inigo_Jones
Inigo Jones was the first significant English architect in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. |
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Irene Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_(costume_designer)
Irene Maud Lentz also known mononymously and professionally as Irene, was an American fashion designer and costume designer. Her work as a clothing designer in Los Angeles led to her career as a costume designer for films in the 1930s. |
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Irene Galitzine Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Galitzine
Princess Irene Galitzine was a Russian-Georgian fashion designer whose most renowned creation was the "palazzo pyjama". She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1965. |
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Irving Penn Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Penn
Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. |
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Jacobus Oud Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Oud
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, commonly called J. J. P. Oud was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement. Oud was born in Purmerend, the son of a tobacco and wine merchant. |
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Jacopo Amigoni Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_Amigoni
Jacopo Amigoni, also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand |
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Jacopo Bassano Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_Bassano
Jacopo Bassano, known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, from which he adopted the name. A pupil of Bonifazio Veronese's, he painted mostly landscapes and genre scenes. |
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Jacques Fath Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Fath
Jacques Fath was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute couture, the others being Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain. The playwright Georges Fath was his great-grandfather. |
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Jacques Griffe Memorable Designers
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Griffe
Jacques Griffe , born Theodore Antoine Emile Claw 1 , is a fashion designer and a fashion designer French, also costume designer for theater and film. |
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Jacques Heim Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Heim
Jacques Heim was a French fashion designer and costume designer for theater and film, and was a manufacturer of women's furs. From 1930 to his death in 1967, he ran the fashion house House of Jacques Heim, which closed in 1969. |
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Jacques-Laurent Agasse Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Laurent_Agasse
Jacques-Laurent Agasse was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland. Born at Geneva, Agasse studied in the public art school of that city. |
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James Abbe Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbe
James Abbe (July 17, 1883 – November 11, 1973) was an American photographer. |
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James Galanos Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Galanos
James Galanos was an American fashion designer and couturier. |
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Jan Brueghe Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Brueghel_the_Elder
Jan Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger. |
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Jean Arp Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Arp
Jean Arp or Hans Arp was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet, and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. |
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Jean Barthet Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Barthet
Jean Barthet was a French milliner who first rose to prominence in the 1950s as hat maker to Hollywood and French film stars, also designing hats for films such as The Young Girls of Rochefort. |
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Jean Dessès Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dess%C3%A8s
Jean Dessès, was a world leading fashion designer in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. His designs reflected the influences of his travels, specializing in creating draped evening gowns in chiffon and mousseline, based on early Greek and Egyptian robes. |
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Jean Patou Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Patou
Jean Patou was a French fashion designer and founder of the Jean Patou brand. |
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Jean Renoir Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Renoir
Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. |
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Jean-Louis Dumas Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Dumas
Jean-Louis Dumas was a French businessman who served as the chairman of the Hermès group from 1978 until 2006. He also served as the company's artistic director. |
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist.[1] Born in Brooklyn to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO©, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced. |
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Jeanne Lanvin Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Lanvin
Jeanne-Marie Lanvin was a French haute couture fashion designer. She founded the Lanvin fashion house and the beauty and perfume company Lanvin Parfums. |
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Jock Kinneir Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Kinneir
Richard "Jock" Kinneir was a typographer and graphic designer who, with colleague Margaret Calvert, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom. Their system has become a model for modern road signage. |
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Joe Eula Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Eula
Joe Eula was an American fashion illustrator. He was a prominent illustrator in the 1960s and 70s, having held the post of creative director at Halston for ten years. |
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John Cassavetes Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cassavetes
John Nicholas Cassavetes (/ˈkæsəˌviːtiːz/; December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter.[1] Cassavetes was a pioneer of American independent film, writing and directing over a dozen movies, which he partially self-financed, and pioneered the use of improvisation and a realistic cinéma vérité style. He also acted in many Hollywood films, notably Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). He studied acting with Don Richardson, using an acting technique based on muscle memory. His income from acting made it possible for him to direct his own films independently. |
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John Cavanagh Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cavanagh_(designer)
John Cavanagh (1914-2003) was a successful Irish London-based couturier of the 1950s and 1960s. A member of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers (IncSoc), his style has been described as reflecting Parisian chic. He dressed many film and stage stars and also designed the wedding dresses for the Duchess of Kent in 1961 and for Princess Alexandra in 1963. |
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John Flett Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flett_(fashion_designer)
John Flett was a British fashion designer who achieved early success with his own brand before designing briefly for Claude Montana. He died of a heart attack at the age of 27, while working in Florence. |
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John Ford Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ford
John Ford was an American film director. He is renowned both for Westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, as well as adaptations of classic 20th-century American novels such as the film The Grapes of Wrath. |
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Josef Albers Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Albers
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the twentieth century. |
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Josef Müller-Brockmann Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_M%C3%BCller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich. |
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Joseph Beuys Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys
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Joseph Ettedgui Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ettedgui
Joseph Ettedgui, usually known simply as Joseph, was an influential London-based retailer and founder of the Joseph retail empire. |
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Joseph Maria Olbrich Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Maria_Olbrich
Joseph Maria Olbrich (22 December 1867 – 8 August 1908) was an Austrian architect and co-founder of the Vienna Secession. |
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Jules-François Crahay Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules-Fran%C3%A7ois_Crahay
Jules-François Crahay was a Belgian-born French fashion designer who worked for the houses of Nina Ricci and Lanvin as head designer. He won the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award in 1962. |
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Julia Margaret Cameron Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes. |
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Jørn Utzon Memorable Designers
http://www.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Utzon
Jørn Oberg Utzon, AC, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. |
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Karel Appel Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Appel
Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948. |
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Friedrich_Schinkel
Karl Friedrich Schinkel was a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassical and neogothic buildings. |
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Kenji Mizoguchi Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Mizoguchi's work is renowned for its long takes and mise-en-scène. According to writer Mark Le Fanu, "His films have an extraordinary force and purity. |
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Kenzō Tange Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_Tange
Kenzō Tange (丹下 健三 Tange Kenzō?, 4 September 1913 – 22 March 2005) was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents |
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Kisho Kurokawa Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisho_Kurokawa
Kisho Kurokawa was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. |
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Krzysztof Kieślowski Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Kieslowski
Krzysztof Kieślowski was an influential Polish art-house film director and screenwriter known internationally for Dekalog, The Double Life of Veronique, and the Three Colors trilogy. |
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László Moholy-Nagy Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. |
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Laura Ashley Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ashley
Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. |
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. |
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Le Corbusier Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. |
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Léon Bakst Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bakst
Léon Bakst was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. |
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Levi Strauss Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss
Levi Strauss was an American Jewish businessman of German origin who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California |
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Lillian Bassman Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Bassman
Lillian Bassman was an American photographer and painter. |
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Lilly Daché Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Dach%C3%A9
Lilly Daché was a French milliner and fashion designer. |
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Lou Dorfsman Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Dorfsman
Louis "Lou" Dorfsman was a graphic designer who oversaw almost every aspect of the advertising and corporate identity for the Columbia Broadcasting System in his 40 years with the network. |
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Louis Daguerre Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. |
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Louis Féraud Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_F%C3%A9raud
Louis Féraud was a French fashion designer and artist. In 1950, Louis Féraud created his first "Maison de Couture" in Cannes and by 1955 had established a couture house in Paris on 88, Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré and 57, rue Pierre-Charonne. |
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Louis Lumière Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re
Lumière brothers, French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinématographe (“cinema” is derived from this name). |
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Louis Sullivan Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan
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Louise Bourgeois Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. |
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Louise Dahl-Wolfe Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Dahl-Wolfe
Louise Emma Augusta Dahl was an American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland. |
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Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy,_Lady_Duff-Gordon
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon was a leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who worked under the professional name of "Lucile". |
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (/miːs/ mees; German: [miːs]; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect.[1] He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture. |
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Luis Buñuel Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bunuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwiz βuˈɲwel portoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France.[2]
When Luis Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in the New York Times called him "an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later |
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Madame Grès Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Gr%C3%A8s
Madame Grès born Germaine Émilie Krebs, also known as Alix Barton and Alix, was a leading French couturier of her generation and costume designer. |
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Madeleine Vionnet Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Vionnet
Madeleine Vionnet was a French fashion designer. Born in Loiret, France, Vionnet trained in London before returning to France to establish her first fashion house in Paris in 1912. |
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Man Ray Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray
Man Ray was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. |
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Marcel Breuer Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer (pronounced broy-ər; 22 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer extended the sculptural vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world's most popular architects at the peak of 20th-Century design. |
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Marcel Broodthaers Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Broodthaers
Marcel Broodthaers was a Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works. |
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Margaret Bourke-White Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the firsthand American female war photojournalist, and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. |
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Mariano Fortuny Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Fortuny_(designer)
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, was a Spanish fashion designer who opened his couture house in 1906 and continued until 1946. He was the son of the painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal. |
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Massimo Vignelli Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli was an Italian designer who worked in a number of areas ranging from package design through houseware design and furniture design to public signage and showroom design. |
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Mathew Brady Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Brady
Mathew B. Brady was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He studied under inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. |
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Max Beckmann Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beckmann
Max Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. |
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Max Huber Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Huber_(graphic_designer)
Max Huber was an influential Swiss graphic designer. Max Huber was born in Baar, Switzerland in 1919. He graduated from Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich under the name Hans Williman. |
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Max Ophüls Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ophuls
Maximillian Oppenheimer, known as Max Ophüls, was a German-born film director who worked in Germany, France, and the United States. |
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Maya Deren Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren
Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowskaia, was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s |
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Michael Graves Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Graves
Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, as well as Memphis Group, Graves was known first for his contemporary building designs and some prominent public commissions that became iconic examples of Postmodern architecture, such as the Portland Building and Denver Public Library. His recognition grew through designing domestic products sold by premium Italian housewares maker Alessi, and later low-cost new designs at stores such as Target and J. C. Penney in the United States.[1] He was a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture and formerly designed postmodern buildings, and was recognized as a major influence in all three movements. |
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Michelangelo Antonioni Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI, was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. |
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Michele Provinciali Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Provinciali
Michele Provincial (Parma, 1923 - Pesaro, March 12, 2009) was an illustrator, graphic designer and Italian. |
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Mimmo Castellano Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimmo_Castellano
Mimmo Castellano (Gioia del Colle, 1932 - Milan, July 29, 2015) was an Italian designer and photographe. |
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Mr. Kenneth Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Kenneth
Kenneth Battelle, more usually known as Mr. Kenneth, was a leading New York hairdresser from the 1950s until his death |
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Nicholas Ray Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ray
Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause.
Ray is also appreciated by a smaller audience of cinephiles for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and In a Lonely Place, as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer. |
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Norman Hartnell Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Hartnell
Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell, KCVO was a leading British fashion designer, best known for his work for the ladies of the Royal Family. |
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Oleg Cassini Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Cassini
Oleg Cassini was an American fashion designer born to an aristocratic Russian family with maternal Italian ancestry. He came to the United States as a young man after starting as a designer in Rome, and quickly got work with Paramount Pictures. |
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Orson Welles Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles
George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. |
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Oscar Niemeyer Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho — known as Oscar Niemeyer — was a Brazilian architect who is considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. |
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Ossie Clark Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossie_Clark
Raymond "Ossie" Clark was an English fashion designer who was a major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era. Clark is now renowned for his vintage designs by present-day designers. |
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Otl Aicher Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otl_Aicher
Otto "Otl" Aicher was a German graphic designer and typographer. He is best known for having designed pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich that proved influential on the use of stick figures . |
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Otto Preminger Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian American theatre and film director. He is known for directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre. |
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Otto Wagner Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wagner
Otto Koloman Wagner was an Austro-Hungarian architect and urban planner, known for his lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna, to which he contributed many landmarks. |
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Paris Bordone Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Bordone
Paris Bordon was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of Mannerist complexity and provincial vigor. |
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Patrick Kelly Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kelly_(fashion_designer)
Patrick Kelly was an American fashion designer. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Kelly studied art at Jackson State University and then attended Parsons School of Design. |
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Paul Iribe Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Iribe
Paul Iribe was a French illustrator, and designer in the decorative arts. He worked in Hollywood during the Twenties and was Coco Chanel's lover from 1931 to his death. |
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Paul Poiret Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Poiret
Paul Poiret was a leading French fashion designer, a master couturier during the first two decades of the 20th century. His contributions to his field have been likened to Picasso's legacy in 20th-century art. |
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Paul Rand Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. |
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Perry Ellis Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Ellis
Perry Edwin Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house, in the mid-1970s. |
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Philip Johnson Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Johnson
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Pierre Balmain Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Balmain
Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain was a French fashion designer and founder of leading post-war fashion house Balmain. Known for sophistication and elegance, he described the art of dressmaking as "the architecture of movement." |
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Pierre Bonnard Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. |
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Pieter Claesz Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Claesz
Pieter Claesz was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes. |
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Pino Lancetti Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pino_Lancetti
Giuseppe Lancetti, commonly known as Pino Lancetti , was an Italian fashion designer, creator of the brand Lancetti. |
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Pino Tovaglia Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pino_Tovaglia
Pino Tovaglia was an Italian graphic designer. He is regarded as one of the major exponents of the Swiss Style in Italy. |
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Pompeo Batoni Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeo_Batoni
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. |
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Preston Sturges Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Sturges
Preston Sturges was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 1941, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty, his first of three nominations in the category. |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder
Film director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor. Fassbinder was part of the New German Cinema movement. |
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Raoul Dufy Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Dufy
Raoul Dufy was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. |
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René Bouché Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Bouch%C3%A9
René Robert Bouché was an artist and fashion illustrator, known for his work in Vogue magazine between the 1930s and 1960s. |
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René Gruau Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Gruau
René Gruau was a fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion design through painting has had a lasting effect on the fashion industry. |
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René Lacoste Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Lacoste
Jean René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" by the press after they learned of a wager Lacoste made with the French Davis Cup captain, who promised Lacoste a crocodile-skin handbag if Lacoste won. |
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René Lalique Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Lalique
René Jules Lalique was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. |
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Richard Avedon Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century". |
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Richard Neutra Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neutra
Richard Joseph Neutra was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for the majority of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered among the most important modernist architects. |
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Richard Parkes Bonington Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parkes_Bonington
Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter, who moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English style to France. |
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Robert Adam Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Adam
Robert Adam FRSE FRS FSA FSA FRSA was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam, the country's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. |
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Robert Altman Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman
Robert Bernard Altman ( February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in history. |
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Robert Bresson Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bresson
Robert Bresson ( 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999)[1] was an acclaimed French film director. Known for a spiritual and ascetic style, Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film. |
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Robert Brownjohn Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brownjohn
Robert Brownjohn was an American graphic designer known for blending formal graphic design concepts with wit and sixties pop culture. He is best known for his motion picture title sequences, especially From Russia with Love and Goldfinger. |
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Robert Capa Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa
Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer and photo journalist, arguably the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. Capa fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager, moving to Berlin, where he enrolled in college. |
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Robert Doisneau Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Doisneau
Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. |
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Robert Mapplethorpe Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his sensitive yet blunt treatment of controversial subject-matter in the large-scale, highly stylized black and white medium of photography. |
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Roberto Rossellini Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Rossellini
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement films such as the 1945 Roma città aperta. |
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Rudi Gernreich Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Gernreich
Rudolf "Rudi" Gernreich was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. |
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Salvador Dali Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
Salvador Domingo Felipe, known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. |
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Salvatore Gregorietti Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Gregorietti
Salvatore was started by his father to the ecclesiastical career, and for some years he attended the seminary in Palermo where he met Bishop Di Marzio recognizing that an inclination towards art, I started to design studies of the technical school. During these studies he met Cavallaro with whom he collaborated in 1891 to the decoration of the foyer and corridors of the Teatro Politeama and the hall of Gonfalons Palace of the Eagles. |
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Sam Peckinpah Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Peckinpah
David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch. |
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Sandro Botticelli Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli
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Satyajit Ray Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. |
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Saul Bass Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bass
Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. |
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Sergei Eisenstein Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. |
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Shigeo Fukuda Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeo_Fukuda
Shigeo Fukuda was a sculptor, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. His art pieces usually portray deception, such as Lunch With a Helmet On, a sculpture created entirely from forks, knives, and spoons, that casts a detailed shadow of a motorcycle. |
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Silvio Coppola Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Coppola
Silvio Coppola (Brindisi, 1920 - Milan, 1985) was an Italian architect.
He was among the protagonists of Italian design in the sixties and seventies. |
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Sofonisba Anguissola Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofonisba_Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola, also known as Sophonisba Angussola or Anguisciola, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a noble family, but a relatively poor one. |
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Sonia Delaunay Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay was a Ukrainian-born French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris and, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. |
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Stanley Kubrick Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. |
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Stephen Sprouse Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sprouse
Stephen Sprouse was a fashion designer and artist credited with pioneering the 1980s mix of "uptown sophistication in clothing with a downtown punk and pop sensibility". |
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Ted Lapidus Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Lapidus
Edmond "Ted" Lapidus was a French fashion designer. He was born in Paris the son of a Russian-Jewish émigré tailor. |
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Thomas Burberry Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Burberry
Thomas Burberry was an English gentlemen's outfitter, and the founder of international chain Burberry, one of Britain's largest branded clothing businesses. He is also known as the inventor of gabardine. |
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Tibor Kalman Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor_Kalman
Tibor Kalman was an American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well known for his work as editor-in-chief of Colors magazine. |
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Toni Frissell Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Frissell
Antoinette Frissell Bacon, known as Toni Frissell, was an American photographer, known for her fashion photography, World War II photographs, and portraits of famous Americans, Europeans, children, and women from all walks of life |
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Travis Banton Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Banton
Travis Banton was the chief costume designer at Paramount Pictures. He is considered one of the most important Hollywood costume designers of the 1930s. He was born in Waco, Texas. Travis moved to New York City as a child. |
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Umberto Boccioni Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni ( 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death.His works are held by many public art museums, and in 1988 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces. |
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Victor Horta Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Horta
Victor Horta was a Belgian architect and designer. John Julius Norwich described him as "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect." Horta is considered one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture. |
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W. Eugene Smith Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Eugene_Smith
William Eugene Smith, was an American photojournalist, renowned for the dedication he devoted to his projects and his uncompromising professional and ethical standards. Smith developed the photo essay into a sophisticated visual form. |
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Walker Evans Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Evans
Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. |
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Walter Albini Memorable Designers
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Albini
Walter Albini (Busto Arsizio, March 3, 1941 - Milan, 31 May 1983) was an Italian fashion designer.
He is considered the father of fashion ready-to-wear, the designer who came out from the atelier to enter the factory. |
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Walter Gropius Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. |
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Way Bandy Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_Bandy
Way Bandy was an American make-up artist. During the 1970s, Bandy became one of the most well known and highest paid make-up artist in the fashion industry. |
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Weegee Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weegee
Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. |
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Willi Baumeister Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Baumeister
Willi Baumeister was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. |
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William Blake Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. |
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Yasujirō Ozu Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujiro_Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. |
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Yousuf Karsh Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousuf_Karsh
Yousuf Karsh, CC was an Armenian–Canadian portrait photographer. He has been called one of the great portrait photographers of the 20th century by Time magazine and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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Yūsaku Kamekura Memorable Designers
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamekura_Y%C5%ABsaku
Kamekura Yūsaku was a Japanese graphic artist and graphic designer specializing in consumer graphics and internationally known for his poster art. |
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Yves Saint Laurent Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_(designer)
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent ( 1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008),[1] known as Yves Saint Laurent, was a French fashion designer, and is regarded as one of the greatest names in fashion history.[2] In 1985, Caroline Rennolds Milbank wrote, "The most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years, Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise from its sixties ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable. |
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Zika Ascher Memorable Designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_Ascher
Zika Ascher was a Czech artist and designer who became pre-eminent in the related fields of British textiles, art, and fashion. |
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